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Police: Driver in fatal Eau Claire crash had been 'huffing' aerosol
July 28, 2011
Eau Claire police say the driver of a pickup truck that crossed the median on U.S. 53 and collided head-on with another vehicle, killing him and an 89-year-old Chippewa Falls woman in the other vehicle, had been "huffing" aerosol keyboard cleaner just before the crash. [...] According to a police report, toxicology tests revealed Barry had an extremely high level of 1,1-difluoroethane in his system, a substance commonly found in aerosol keyboard cleaner."
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